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C.L. recommends: Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella (F Kinsella) There’s an awful lot going on in Lara Lington’s life — her business partner has run off to Goa, her company is in trouble and her boyfriend just dumped her. And now she keeps seeing the ghost of her Great Aunt Sadie, dressed as a flapper. Sadie implores Lara to find her missing necklace while meddling in Lara’s attempts to get back together with her “perfect” ex-boyfriend. (Book trailer)

Tim recommends: Rain Gods by James Lee Burke (F Burke) After getting a mysterious phone call from a distraught witness, rural Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland makes a grisly discovery: the bodies of nine young Thai women who were murdered while being smuggled into the country as prostitutes and drug mules. In the aftermath of this slaughter, the witness and his girlfriend go on the run leading to a vicious conflict between cops, gangsters and cold blooded killers. This was a crackling story of greed, violence and the hope of redemption. Burke is the master of characterization, and the men and women who populate his novels are fully formed individuals. Holland, the rural sheriff haunted by his memories of the Korean War, killer "Preacher" Jack Collins who is obsessed by old school religion, and the other characters of the story are not cookie cutter constructs, but deep people with the same contradictory emotions that all of us face daily. Like most Burke novels, the description of the natural environment is key. The landscape and weather of the desert of west Texas is described in such clarity as to almost become a character in the story as well. With his extraordinary eye for detail and thoughtful and sympathetic characterizations, this is crime writing on a sublime level and is very highly recommended. (BookPage Interview)

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